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Georgia
Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for Georgia.
421Documented
4In custody
337Released
9Awaiting trial
Eras of repression in Georgia
Where Georgia’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.
2000s 126
1960s 78
1930s 55
2020s 41
1970s 34
1990s 24
Recent dashboard entries from Georgia
The newest published events and reporting located in Georgia, updated automatically from the live dashboard.
Protest
Folkston ICE detainees launch hunger strike
Other
Reporter Sal Insinga assaulted and equipment damaged while covering a Cedartown protest
Arrest
Colby Williams arrested after four Cobb County Flock cameras were burned and a “DeFlock” sticker was found
Other
Flock worker calls police on InvestigateTV reporter filming public camera installation
Prosecution
Cop City activist Sam Tunick challenges federal prosecution over alleged phone wiping during a border search
Arrest
Five Black women arrested at Atlanta's Peachtree Road Race after a locked-arms "Not Another 250" action on the July Fourth course
Protest
Social Circle leaders rally at the state Capitol against a planned ICE detention center
Prosecution
Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly and Tommy Shad English were charged in a roughly $170 million scheme to smuggle export-controlled AI servers and chips to China through Thailand
Documented cases
421 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.
Niklan Jones-Lezama
Released
Niklan Jones-Lezama crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to clo...
Emma Jean Jones-Pope
Released
Emma Jean Jones-Pope was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 1963 after part...
Melinda Jones-Williams
Released
Melinda Jones-Williams was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 1963 after pa...
Forest Jordan
Released
Forest Jordan, also spelled Forrest Jordan in contemporary reporting, was one of the six Reidsville Brothers p...
Alvin Joseph
Released
Alvin Joseph is a Gwinnett County, Georgia defendant who was arrested in June 2020 on federal charges of attem...
Edgar Timmons, Jr.
Released
Edgar Timmons Jr. was one of four Black land-reclamation protesters arrested by federal marshals at Harris Nec...
Thomas Jurgens
Released
Thomas Webb Jurgens, 28, is a staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center (UGA Law School, class of 2019...
Emmarene Kaigler-Streeter
Released
Emmarene Kaigler-Streeter was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 1963 after...
Rebecca Kanner
Released
Rebecca Kanner crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced t...
Marlon Kautz
Awaiting Trial
Marlon Scott Kautz is the chief financial officer of the Network for Strong Communities, the nonprofit that op...
Judith Kelly
Released
Judith Kelly crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to three months in...
Ken Kennon
Released
Arizona minister and peace activist involved in Tucson SOA Watch. Jailed in 1998 following the School of the A...
Sr. Moira Kenny
Released
Sr. Moira Kenny crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
Joel Kilgour
Released
Joel Kilgour crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to...
A. D. King
Released
The Rev. A. D. King — Alfred Daniel King, younger brother of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — was one of 79 people...
Ayla King
Awaiting Trial
The first defendant in the sweeping Georgia RICO indictment against Stop Cop City forest defenders to go to tr...
Lonnie C. King Jr.
Released
Lonnie C. King Jr. was a Morehouse College student and cofounder of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights w...
Chisom Kingston
Released
Atlanta defendant prosecuted for the June 13, 2020 arson of the Wendy's restaurant at 125 University Avenue —...
Yvonne Klein
Released
Yvonne Klein participated in the integrated CNVA peace walk and was jailed in Albany, Georgia, in December 196...
Margaret Knapke
Released
Margaret Knapke crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army Sch...
Rae Kramer
Released
Rae Kramer crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the September 2002 SOA Watch vigil to close the U....
Michelle LaValley
Released
Michelle “Mimi” LaValley was a Unitarian Universalist youth-program worker from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts w...
Annie Lou Ragans Laster
Released
Annie Lou Ragans Laster was one of the Black school-aged girls imprisoned in southwest Georgia in 1963 after p...
Elizabeth Ann Lentsch
Released
Elizabeth Ann Lentsch crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the...
Institutions in Georgia
Prisons, jails, and detention centers in Georgia that appear in the census’s case files.
DeKalb County JailDecatur, Georgia
39 cases
U.S. Penitentiary AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
36 cases
Lee County StockadeLeesburg, Georgia
36 cases
Fulton County JailAtlanta, Georgia
30 cases
USP AtlantaAtlanta, Georgia
26 cases
Albany City JailAlbany, Georgia
18 cases
Georgia PenitentiaryMilledgeville, Georgia
11 cases
Atlanta City JailAtlanta, Georgia
8 cases